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Biografia : Nigro

It all started with a solo project by Carlos Nigro where he takes his surname, however he needed to call musicians to accompany him, and now they continue as a band, but by mutual agreement, it continues to carry the vocalist's surname. From the town of São Paulo. Project started in 2018 with the song “Only For Today”, arranged by Daniel Vargas (Adellaide) and produced by Tito Falaschie, and in 2019, bassist Anderson Shelby and guitarist Wagner Wolf joined the band, where they were composing and preparing to release the EP that would come out in the middle of 2020, which was postponed for reasons of worldwide stoppage, but now they have keyboardist Vagner Brentan to compose the Line-up. To bring back the magic of AOR that bewitched the world, with the sound of the 80s.
Member history:

Carlos Nigro started singing as a teenager and started to attend choirs to improve himself, singing at Madrigal “Cantate Domino”, and at “Sociedade Pró Música Sacra do Estado de São Paulo”, passing by countless bands of little expression, his influences are countless , but mentioning some Geoff Tate, Michael Kiske, André Mattos, Eric Adams and in the middle of AOR, Jimi Jamison, Steve Perry, Steve Lukather, among many others.

Anderson Shelby comes from a family of amateur musicians, his bassist father played together with his uncles in the 1960s, at the age of 12 he started his first journey in music and at 19 his first professional band called “Gravura” where he wrote lines of the second EP of the band, at 21 he passed by the pop rock band “+ de1OO”, going through a Tribute to Metallica and another to Iron Maiden in 2018, since 2O19 he assumed the position of bassist in “NIGRO”. Main influences Jeff Pilson (Dokken), Nibbs Carter (Saxon), Roger Glover (Deep Purple). nd leave the band in April/21

Wagner Wolf started playing at the age of 12 when he got his first guitar. Always playing on his own until he saw the 1986 film "Trick or Treat" with Fastway songs, he decided what he wanted to do as a musician. At 18 he bought his first guitar. He was part of some authorial projects and covers. In 2019, he met C. Nigro who invited him to play at the Dream Warriors Dokken Tribute, and was soon also invited to his authorial project.

Vagner Brentan started in the music world in the late 80s. Going through several styles ranging from Progressive to Neoclassical Metal,
He played many covers of Pink Floyd, Marilion, Genesis, going through Stratovarius and Dream Theater, playing this mix in underground bands from São Paulo.Source : C. Nigro